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Jamie Kneen

@jkneen.bsky.social
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Let's not panic until there is some evidence. Oh, crap...

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 02/10/2026
wouldn’t have predicted catholicism as one of the big allies in the fight against ai, but i’m here for it
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026
Carney begins his announcement of a new oil pipeline by acknowledging the climate-linked wildfire that came close to levelling the town where he's announcing the new oil pipeline. A flat circle.
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Qatar-wol @qatar-wol.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@standplaatskrk.pl
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Jamie Kneen @jkneen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think they mean *on* Parliament Hill
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thx @thewalrus.ca for a great article exposing the ‘big lie’ of Alberta victimisation weaponised by Smith’s opportunism. Our report with @ABFedLabour documents how it’s not Ottawa, but the greed of business & its UCP backers, that explains Albertans hardship: centreforfuturework.ca/2026/09/18/wor…
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“They talk about the region as if it’s a statistic, as if it’s a number, as if it’s money to be made. But it’s people’s homes … We know what’s at stake. It’s our future that will be affected.” www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
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First Nations youth continue fight over feds' major projects agenda
While Prime Minister Mark Carney was pitching energy projects to the world, First Nations youth from Attawapiskat were holding a protest.
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s a 9️⃣.5️⃣ from the #WorldBollardAssociation
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What's hard about public policy is weighing the trade offs. For example, something sucks really bad and everyone hates it, but on the other hand several evil trillionaires think it's good. What are you supposed to do in that situation
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randy39.bsky.social @randy39.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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NigelBankes @nigelb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Good for you Sean Casey. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Liberal MP says he was demoted for supporting NDP bill targeting arms export controls | CBC News
Charlottetown MP Sean Casey says he was removed from his position as parliamentary secretary to the minister of veterans affairs because he voted against the government and supported an NDP private me...
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats
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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i think about this post all the time. you might too
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I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 25/09/2026
Carney: The rules-based international order is crumbling. International Criminal Court: As a participating member you are required by the rules to arrest those with a warrant if they pass through your territory. Carney: Fuck you.
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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How are corporate investments protected over people and the planet? A great line-up for this very timely online teach-in organized by @commonfrontiers.bsky.social, Trade Justice Network, and MiningWatch Canada ! #StopISDS Register here ⬇️ tinyurl.com/Canada-ISDS
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Online teach-in: How corporate investments are protected over people and the planet. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining ...
This teach-in explores how the Canadian government protects Canadian foreign investors like mining companies in Latin America. It is an introduction to a pesky colonialist tool called "Investor-State ...
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 23/09/2026
Nova Scotia repealed its decades-old moratorium on uranium mining last year. For now, mining companies appear to be snubbing the province’s open call for uranium exploration, but some residents are still petitioning for the ban to be reinstated.
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As Nova Scotia tries to kick-start uranium mining, residents worry while industry shrugs
Amid the critical minerals rush, Nova Scotia lifted a four-decade uranium exploration ban last year. No mining company responded, but locals still worry
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
From @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me on what we should take from the 2026 summer of AI hype: www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
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Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.
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Jamie Kneen @jkneen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And they don't even have to be (tram or battery) electric buses, though that's obviously a bonus. Use the buses you have!
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Jamie Kneen @jkneen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can't they save them up until just before 11 pm on a random Wednesday with no warning?
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A Vancouver-area First Nation has issued a travel advisory for the US, after members were detained by ICE.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 23/09/2026
prerat (@prerat) on twitter:

"At the next Bay Area House Party:
Oh yeah our startup chemically wireheads bugs. We're producing billions of positive subjective experience-moments and selling them as offsetting credits to regular animal factory farms so they can sell net-positive chicken."
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 23/09/2026
Mobile Suit Larry (@funkula@goblin.camp) on mastodon:

"If you need one, here's a pallet cleanser for you"

[an industrial pallet washer]
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Jamie Kneen @jkneen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The labour movement in Canada has not seriously exercised its power since I was a young pup. I think the PM has seriously underestimated it as a result.
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Jamie Kneen @jkneen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“The idea that the government is going to spend our public money, $40 billion of it, on a pipeline — that seems insane to me. You know, we need to put that money into affordable clean energy, which is actually possible now.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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N.S. seniors head to Ottawa for rally against new oil pipelines on Parliament Hill | CBC News
“I feel that my generation really dropped the ball on environmental protection and it's the next generations that are going to feel the impact of climate change much more than I am," says one N.S. sen...
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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We join 30+ orgs in telling Canada: Stop putting Canadian mining interests ahead of Indigenous rights, respect the Xinka People’s decision to say “No!” and help ensure the safe & permanent closure of the Escobal mine @apgopa.bsky.social @cnca-rcrce.bsky.social 🔊 miningwatch.ca/news/2026/9/...
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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
There are major gaps when it comes to protection for critical habitats for species at risk. We add our name to @ontarionature.bsky.social's joint letter, commenting on proposed Critical Habitat Regulations. catalog.ontarionature.org/joint-ltr-to...
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.
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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Editorial: We’re beginning to think Canadians might not be serious about this whole reconciliation thing
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026
Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 17/09/2026
New research from Proton finds 87% of top Canadian companies depend on US tech companies. For governments, it’s even worse: 100% of federal, provincial, and territorial governments rely on US companies for email. As Canada turns away from the US, major institutions need to cut that reliance.
100% of Canadian governments and 87% of major Canadian companies depend on US companies for email services.
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Jamie Kneen @jkneen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Consider gold, Canada’s biggest mining product by value (& most useless), generating astonishing profits for investors from record high prices while paying pitiful levels of tax & royalties and leaving behind billions in intergenerational environmental legacies. Now getting fast-tracked, not taxed.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
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Grand chief tells Carney summit resources 'are not theirs to give'
The grand council chief of the Anishinabek Nation tells investment summit that Canada can't give away resources that 'aren't theirs to give.'
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's so funny to me when people try to defend Carney's terrible decisions by pointing to his economics education. Yeah. Because no one with an engineering degree has ever built a skyscraper or bridge that fell down, and no one with a medical degree has ever left a sponge in someone.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 16/09/2026
The way media has completely bought the AI industry’s contention that AI superintelligence is on the horizon and could be a threat to humanity has been frustrating to watch. Check out my first piece for @zeteo.com where I explain how this is a big distraction and the real threats presented by AI.
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Cindy Blackstock @cblackst.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Increasingly the ISC - the federal department that was repeatedly found to discriminate against First Nations children wants control over them and to turn their back on First Nations and evidence supported solutions- and that will cost children’s childhoods and more money. www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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Chief says Canada blocking effort to take back control of child and family services | CBC News
A Cree chief in Ontario is accusing the Carney government of blocking his community's effort to take back jurisdiction over child welfare by imposing financial terms on any handover of jurisdiction — ...
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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In bid to spur investment, Carney offers businesses chance to screw over Indigenous community of their choice
Canadian PM Carney appears to wink
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Jamie Kneen @jkneen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s a sack of shit with the handles on the inside.
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 15/09/2026
When Australia privatized their airports, their Competition Bureau found that consumers paid $1.6 billion in extra fees.
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Lack of airport regulation costs consumers up to $1.6b in fees: ACCC
Airlines and their passengers have paid up to $1.6 billion too much for airport access over the past decade due to a textbook example of how not to privatise monopoly assets, the competition regulator...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave. “Traffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way.” If you want people to choose not to drive, make the non-driving trip better & easier for them. It’s as simple as that, really.
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‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave
Traffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way
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Jamie Kneen @jkneen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The neoliberal language is a warning. Responsible governments don’t just “unlock” or “unleash” and stand aside. They, er, govern.
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Jamie Kneen @jkneen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Mine tailings kill. The mining industry wants you to think adequate safeguards are in place, but refuses to implement "Safety First: Guidelines for Responsible Mine Tailings Management" earthworks.org/resources/sa... in favour of their voluntary standard thegtmi.org health-e.org.za/2026/09/08/t...
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Two Boys Drown Near Harmony Mine Site As Free State Families Demand Answers
Two families in Nyakallong, Free State, are mourning the deaths of two young boys who drowned in a mine dam near Harmony Gold’s Target 2 Rock Dump in
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 10/09/2026
Former and current staff at Ontario’s Ministry of Environment tell @fatimabsyed.bsky.social and @leahbortskuperman.bsky.social that Bill 5, and the death of the Endangered Species Act, left them powerless in protecting at-risk species. “We were essentially silenced.”
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Inside Ontario’s endangered species office after Bill 5 | The Narwhal
‘We were essentially silenced’: current and former Ministry of Environment officials say they were powerless after Doug Ford killed the Endangered Species Act
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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Lac Simon Chief Lucien Wabanonik says the Novador project was approved without Lac Simon’s consent. Now the community is turning to the courts.
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Lac Simon First Nation evicts gold mine from its ancestral territory
Drilling on the project stopped weeks ago when Lac Simon issued an eviction notice to Mexican mining company Fresnillo.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
im inclined to agree with the techlords that AI is dangerous. again, not because it's alive but because they're insisting on putting it in positions where it can hurt people, leaving aside the promised jobpocalypse they're promising us. chimp with gun
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Jamie Kneen @jkneen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You can't fix stupid, but even Tim Houston might be able to recognize he's made a mistake and reinstate Nova Scotia's uranium ban. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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More Nova Scotians add their names to petition calling for return of uranium ban | CBC News
In March of 2025, the province repealed a decades-long ban on uranium mining. Now, more than 10,000 Nova Scotians are asking to reinstate the ban.
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Jamie Kneen @jkneen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Troubling – but unsurprising – dishonesty from the Fraser Institute. This is a great test of media literacy, if anyone's studying techniques of misrepresentation and disinformation. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
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Opinion: B.C.’s First Nations land deals threaten the economic foundations of the province
The agreements risk costing the government future earnings from resources and limiting its ability to borrow money
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Jamie Kneen @jkneen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I just contributed to @briarpatchmag.bsky.social's website relaunch. Let's help keep independent and fierce journalism alive. Contribute here: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
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I just contributed to @briarpatchmag's website relaunch. Let's help keep independent and fierce journalism alive: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/support-briarpatchs-website-relaunch
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Jamie Kneen @jkneen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Thank you to @geoffreyyork.bsky.social for this important coverage. Other major Canadian news organizations are just letting this critical but inconvenient news slide beneath the waves. ($) www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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UN investigators find evidence of UAE links to Sudan war
Abu Dhabi trained and financed Colombian mercenaries who participated in the massacre of civilians in Darfur, UN report says
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Jamie Kneen @jkneen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
That was unexpected. Not.
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